Across
- 5. warlike Germanic people who settled in England and ruled the country for six centuries.
- 6. a nobleman who received land from a king in medieval feudal society
- 7. ruled the Franks and was the first leader to convert
- 9. a political and social system in which a vassal receives protection from a lord in exchange for obedience and service
- 11. the code of conduct demanded that a knight be brave and courteous and never shrink from a challenge
- 12. a person who worked the land of a medieval lord
- 14. a self-contained world located on land belonging to a lord
- 15. to change one’s religion
Down
- 1. passed laws that chipped away at the power of the nobles of Rome, crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans during a Christmas service in Rome, defended by Charlemagne
- 2. First emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 3. a lesser nobleman who received land and protection from a feudal lord in exchange for obedience and service
- 4. a warrior in medieval Europe
- 8. This era lasted from about 500 to 1450 in Western Europe and is also called the medieval period
- 10. from the Latin medium (middle) and aevum (age)
- 13. new settlers had their own ideas about government united to form powerful kingdoms but didn’t create large centralized governments or write down their laws, as the Romans had